Ritchie Robertson is Taylor Professor of German at Oxford University. He has written extensively on German literature from the mid-eighteenth century to the present. His books include: Kafka: Judaism, Politics, and Literature (1988), The „Jewish Question” in German Literature, 1749-1939 (1999), (Ed.) The German-Jewish Dialogue: An Anthology of Literary Texts, 1749-1993, World”s Classics (1999), (Ed.) The Cambridge Companion to Thomas Mann (2002), Kafka: A Very Short Introduction (2004).
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Ritchie Robertson: Heine
Heinrich Heine (1797-1856) is one of Germany’s greatest writers. His agile mind and brilliant wit expressed themselves in lyrical and satirical poetry, travel writing, fiction, and essays on literatu …
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Barry Murnane & Ritchie Robertson: Essen, töten, heilen
Über die Entstehungsbedingungen der Literaturkritik. Während im deutschsprachigen Raum zwischen Literaturkritik (als Sonderform journalistischer Auseinandersetzung mit Gegenwartsliteratur) und Litera …
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Ritchie Robertson: Goethe
In 1878 the Victorian critic Matthew Arnold wrote: ‘Goethe is the greatest poet of modern times… because having a very considerable gift for poetry, he was at the same time, in the width, depth, an …
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Ritchie Robertson: Goethe
In 1878 the Victorian critic Matthew Arnold wrote: ‘Goethe is the greatest poet of modern times… because having a very considerable gift for poetry, he was at the same time, in the width, depth, an …
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Laurence Brockliss & Ritchie Robertson: Isaiah Berlin and the Enlightenment
Isaiah Berlin (1909-97) was recognized as Britain’s most distinguished historian of ideas. Many of his essays discussed thinkers of what this book calls the ‘long Enlightenment’ (from Vico in the eig …
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Laurence Brockliss & Ritchie Robertson: Isaiah Berlin and the Enlightenment
Isaiah Berlin (1909-97) was recognized as Britain’s most distinguished historian of ideas. Many of his essays discussed thinkers of what this book calls the ‘long Enlightenment’ (from Vico in the eig …
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Sigmund Freud: Interpretation of Dreams
This groundbreaking new translation of The Interpretation of Dreams is the first to be based on the original text published in November 1899. It restores Freud’s original argument, unmodified by revi …
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Ritchie Robertson: Kafka
‘When Gregor Samsa awoke one morning from troubled dreams he found himself transformed in his bed into a monstrous insect …’ So begins Franz Kafka’s most famous story Metamorphosis. Franz Kafka (18 …
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Arthur Schnitzler: Round Dance and Other Plays
Flirtations * Round Dance * The Green Cockatoo * The Last Masks * Countess Mizzi * The Vast Domain * Professor Bernhardi The playwright Arthur Schnitzler is best known as the chronicler of fin de sic …
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Anthea Bell & Franz Kafka: Castle
‘K. kept feeling that he had lost himself, or was further away in a strange land than anyone had ever been before’A remote village covered almost permanently in snow and dominated by a castle and its …
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Franz Kafka: Trial
‘Someone must have been telling tales about Josef K. for one morning, without having done anything wrong, he was arrested.’A successful professional man wakes up one morning to find himself under arr …
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Joyce Crick & Franz Kafka: Metamorphosis and Other Stories
‘When Gregor Samsa woke one morning from uneasy dreams, he found himself transformed into some kind of monstrous vermin.’With a bewildering blend of the everyday and the fantastical, Kafka thus begin …
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Ritchie Robertson: Mock-Epic Poetry from Pope to Heine
This is a study of mock-epic poetry in English, French, and German from the 1720s to the 1840s. While mock-heroic poetry is a parodistic counterpart to serious epic, mock-epic poetry starts by parody …
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Ritchie Robertson: Kafka
‘When Gregor Samsa awoke one morning from troubled dreams he found himself transformed in his bed into a monstrous insect …’ So begins Franz Kafka’s most famous story Metamorphosis. Franz Kafka (18 …
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Anthea Bell & Franz Kafka: Castle
‘K. kept feeling that he had lost himself, or was further away in a strange land than anyone had ever been before’A remote village covered almost permanently in snow and dominated by a castle and its …
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Franz Kafka: Trial
‘Someone must have been telling tales about Josef K. for one morning, without having done anything wrong, he was arrested.’A successful professional man wakes up one morning to find himself under arr …
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Joyce Crick & Franz Kafka: Metamorphosis and Other Stories
‘When Gregor Samsa woke one morning from uneasy dreams, he found himself transformed into some kind of monstrous vermin.’With a bewildering blend of the everyday and the fantastical, Kafka thus begin …
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Arthur Schnitzler: Round Dance and Other Plays
Flirtations * Round Dance * The Green Cockatoo * The Last Masks * Countess Mizzi * The Vast Domain * Professor Bernhardi The playwright Arthur Schnitzler is best known as the chronicler of fin de sic …
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Ritchie Robertson: Mock-Epic Poetry from Pope to Heine
This is a study of mock-epic poetry in English, French, and German from the 1720s to the 1840s. While mock-heroic poetry is a parodistic counterpart to serious epic, mock-epic poetry starts by parody …
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Franz Kafka: Hunger Artist and Other Stories
‘In recent decades, interest in hunger artists has greatly diminished.’ Kafka published two collections of short stories in his lifetime, A Country Doctor: Little Tales (1919) and A Hunger Artist: Fo …
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Franz Kafka: Hunger Artist and Other Stories
‘In recent decades, interest in hunger artists has greatly diminished.’ Kafka published two collections of short stories in his lifetime, A Country Doctor: Little Tales (1919) and A Hunger Artist: Fo …
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Franz Kafka: Man who Disappeared
‘…behind them all was New York, looking at Karl with the hundred thousand windows of its skyscrapers’ Entering New York harbour, the young immigrant Karl Rossmann sees the Statue of Liberty, ‘her a …
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Franz Kafka: Man who Disappeared
‘…behind them all was New York, looking at Karl with the hundred thousand windows of its skyscrapers’ Entering New York harbour, the young immigrant Karl Rossmann sees the Statue of Liberty, ‘her a …
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Sigmund Freud: Case of Hysteria
‘I very soon had an opportunity to interpret Dora’s nervous coughing as the outcome of a fantasized sexual situation.’ A Case of Hysteria, popularly known as the Dora Case, affords a rare insight int …
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Sigmund Freud: Case of Hysteria
‘I very soon had an opportunity to interpret Dora’s nervous coughing as the outcome of a fantasized sexual situation.’ A Case of Hysteria, popularly known as the Dora Case, affords a rare insight int …
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Robert Musil: Confusions of Young Torless
‘between the life we live and the life we feel…there is the invisible border, like a narrow gate’Set in a boarding school in a remote area of the Habsburg Empire at the turn of the last century, Th …
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Robert Musil: Confusions of Young Torless
‘between the life we live and the life we feel…there is the invisible border, like a narrow gate’Set in a boarding school in a remote area of the Habsburg Empire at the turn of the last century, Th …
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Theodor Fontane: Effi Briest
‘I loathe what I did, but what I loathe even more is your virtue.’Seventeen-year-old Effi Briest is steered by her parents into marriage with an ambitious bureaucrat, twenty years her senior. He take …
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Theodor Fontane: Effi Briest
‘I loathe what I did, but what I loathe even more is your virtue.’Seventeen-year-old Effi Briest is steered by her parents into marriage with an ambitious bureaucrat, twenty years her senior. He take …
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Heinrich Heine: Harz Journey and Selected Prose
A poet whose verse inspired music by Schubert, Schumann, Mendelssohn and Brahms, Heinrich Heine (1797-1856) was in his lifetime equally admired for his elegant prose. This collection charts the devel …
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Ritchie Robertson: Enlightenment
‘The best single-volume study of the Enlightenment that we have’ Literary Review The Enlightenment is one of the formative periods of Western history, yet more than 300 years after it began, it remai …
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Ritchie Robertson: Enlightenment
A magisterial history that recasts the Enlightenment as a period not solely consumed with rationale and reason, but rather as a pursuit of practical means to achieve greater human happiness. One of t …
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William C Donahue & Martha B. Helfer: Nexus 3
Biennial volume of new and innovative essays on German Jewish Studies, featuring forum sections on Heinrich Heine and Karl Kraus. Nexus is the official publication of the biennial German Jewish Studi …
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William C Donahue & Martha B. Helfer: Nexus 4
Features a special section on the Hungarian German Jewish writer and theater director George Tabori and a Forum section on the 2016 film A German Life. Nexus is the official publication of the bienni …
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Michael Wood & Johannes Birgfeld: Edinburgh German Yearbook 12
In essays that examine particular non-canonical works and writers in their wider cultural context, this volume ‘repopulates’ the German Enlightenment. German literature and thought flourished in the …
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Roy Norton & Jonathan W Thacker: A Companion to Calderón de la Barca
The first comprehensive study of Calderón in English Pedro Calderón de la Barca (1600-1681) is one of the most important dramatists – many would say the single most important dramatist – of the Spani …
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Roy Norton & Jonathan W Thacker: Companion to Calderon de la Barca
The first comprehensive study of Calderon in English Pedro Calderon de la Barca (1600-1681) is one of the most important dramatists – many would say the single most important dramatist – of the Spani …
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Dagmar C. G. Lorenz: A Companion to the Works of Elias Canetti
New essays providing a comprehensive scholarly introduction to the great writer and thinker Canetti. The Bulgarian-born scholar and author Elias Canetti was one of the most astute witnesses and analy …
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Jens Rieckmann: A Companion to the Works of Stefan George
New, wide-ranging essays on the controversial poet, who was both a harbinger of Modernism and a critic of modernity. Stefan George (1868-1933) is along with Hugo von Hofmannsthal and Rainer Maria Ril …
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Katrin Kohl & Ritchie Robertson: A History of Austrian Literature 1918-2000
New essays examine 20th-c. Austrian literature in relation to history, politics, and popular culture. 20th-century Austrian literature boasts many outstanding writers: Schnitzler, Musil, Rilke, Kraus …
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Stephen D. Dowden & Meike G. Werner: German Literature, Jewish Critics
Proceedings of the Brandeis conference on Jewish Germanists who fled Nazi Germany and their impact on Anglo-American German studies. Among the Jewish academics and intellectuals expelled from Germany …
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James Rolleston: A Companion to the Works of Franz Kafka
Fresh essays by leading scholars on the most perplexing of modern writers, Franz Kafka. No other writer of German-language literature in the 20th century has been as fully accepted into the canon of …
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Johann Peter Eckermann: Conversations with Goethe
A perceptive introduction to the mind of one of German’s greatest writers, in a new translation for the first time in 150 years’The best German book there is’ Nietzsche By the turn of the nineteenth …
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Nicholas Martin & Norbert Oellers: Who Is This Schiller Now?
New essays by top international Schiller scholars on the reception of the great German writer and dramatist, emphasizing his realist aspects. The works of Friedrich Schiller (1759-1805) – an innovat …
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Margit Dirscherl & Arturo Larcati: Das Erbe von Humanismus und Aufklärung in der Exilliteratur. The Heritage of Humanism and Enlightenment in Exile Literature
»Nach wie vor bin ich der Meinung, daß sich die Literatur der deutschen landesflüchtigen Schriftsteller in allen Ländern der Welt am treffendsten als eine humanistische Front gegen das nationalsozial …
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E. T. A. Hoffmann: Golden Pot and Other Tales
Hoffmann is among the greatest and most popular of the German Romantics. This selection, while stressing the variety of his work, puts in the foreground those tales in which the real and the supernat …
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